The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-02
30 Nnere aennnfIo1l.

Times Democrat,
Chicago is realizing that the execu
tion Of the Anarchists was much
more important event than it was inn
agined at the time by most people. The
subject has been discussed throughout
the world, and the foreign observers
declare almost without exception that
the country has Just safely passed
through an important crisis, and that
any yielding, any fear Of the Anarch
ists, might have established perma
nently on our soil the doctrine that
any class of men may defy and dispute
the law whenever it does not agree
with their views and their theories,
There are, here and there, theorists
that agree with the hanged men, or
philanthropists disposed to shed tear
over their graves, but the general YER
dict Of the world--and no event in
American history for twenty years has
been so generally commented on-is
that this country acted wisely by its
firmness aud determination III laying
down the doctrine that the law must
be observed,
In another way, Chicago has eyi
dence that the trial was one Of great
Importance, and affected thetown com
mercially and otherwise. For a week
or SO before the hanging, sensational
reports concerning tho Anarchists were
flying around Chicago, II was thought
best to take every possible pFeoantion
to prevent trouble, But few people So
riousiy apprehended a difficulty yet
theooulmercial returnsfrom ''The City
by the Lake" shows conolusively that
business was very much alarmed by
the outlook, that trade was seriously
depressed and since the majesty Of
the law has been vindicated, there has
been flood of business, which demon
strates oouolusively that capital and
commerce regarded the spread Of An
archism and the triumph Of dynamite
as a severe and impending danger to
America. The Chicago markets have
improved, prices advanced and slarger
business was done the week after the
hanging Of the Anarchists than for
| months previous, and other markets
sympathetically "boomedH The Chi
cago trade papers expressed the opin-
ion that this Improvement, whiehis un-
doubted and uudisputed, is due to the
hanging. "The whole civilized world,
aud especially the commercial part Of
it, was watching for the result ot The
grapple between law aud Anarchy
was the view the Chicago merchants
took of the matter. "The orderly and
quiet manner in which tho supremacy
Of the law was proven has inspired
confidence, and the first result of it is
seen IN better prices for stocks. But
the Willingness to invest viii not be
confined to stocks; 1t win eventually
reach all lines Of business, and we shall
sec prosperous times. We are already
beginning TO see them in the grain and
provision trade
This is not an unreasonable view to
take of the matter ; aud this, indeed, is
substantially the view taken in the En-
| glish and foreign press general that
America was passing through Q reyo-
lntionary crisis, whore its safety and
future depended upon its wisdom or
its weakness,
But while most lines Of business
we're lethargic and depressed during
the last few weeks Of the struggle to
save the condemned Anarchists, one
branch at least prospered-the news
papers. The public interest ip this
lannon's case was we'll shown by the
fact that the circulation of papers
throughoutthis country increased Won
derfully during the last week Of the
Chicago tragedy, and in many instan-
cGs, was far beyond that ofa presiden,
tial election. The Chicago Neips is a
case in point, it's circulation having
run up from an aggregate Of 10000
daily TO 100000 Che day after the OK
eCltiop, an Improvement Of 100000
cpppiGs, making it the largest edition
Of q daily newspaper ever issued IN
| the world.
| The Chicago hanging was not a
mere newspaper sensation as 80 many
are disposed to think IL was an i'm
portant episode in the history Of the
| Republic. So says the press Of the
world, SO say capital, trade and in
dustry.